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Like presidents, New Year resolutions come and go, but the country and its bullet-proof Constitution have endured for 231 years. President Bush and 2008 will be no exceptions.

The United States and its elegant and concise Constitution have survived British invasion, civil war, depression, innumerable recessions, two world wars, a couple of anti-communist police actions and the assassinations of four presidents.

In 2008 - a presidential election year in which the nation has the opportunity to once again rescue itself from those who would undermine "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" - we will survive what easily qualifies as the worst presidency and the worst foreign policy disaster in American history: President George W. Bush and his Iraq invasion and occupation.

Of course, much more is at stake in righting our tilting ship of state this November.

The economy is on the ropes; tax policy has been used to favor the wealthy and undermine the poor and middle class; health care remains beyond the reach of millions of Americans and a costly burden to millions more; energy policy is subsidizing corporate greed; fractured thinking has our military and intelligence agencies thinking torture is reasonable; environmental policy is a subset of failing energy, economic and tax policies that continue to ignore the greatest long-term threat in human history, i.e., global climate change; and future generations are being saddled with the crass greed of baby boomers who have allowed this country to be sold to the lowest bidder, resulting in the near doubling of our national debt in just seven years.

Fixing it all is going to require more than a New Year's resolution. It will require the determined resolution - indeed, the hard political resolve - of millions of Americans to again "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," as the Constitution's Preamble challenges us.

Need a resolution kick in the pants? Try watching or reading any or all of these:

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which raises elemental questions about one of the worst days in American history and the failures of the Bush administration to respond before, during and after it.

Al Gore's Academy Award and Nobel Prize-winning "An Inconvenient Truth."

Naomi Kline's "Shock Doctrine," which is a direct assault on the mythical "free market." Also, her previous revelation, "Disaster Capitalism," in The Nation.

Michael Moore's "Sicko," which details just how ill our nation really is and the obvious medicine we'll need to get well.

"Who Killed the Electric Car?" — an indictment of the American automobile and oil industries, in particular General Motors, for brutally destroying a major, sensible solution to our absolutely stupid energy, environmental and foreign policies.

Tom Hartmann's "Screwed: the Undeclared War Against the Middle Class," and "Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds and Restore America's Original Vision."

It's 2008 in America. Do you know where your country is?